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SPECIES Lipotes vexillifer
Author: | Miller, 1918. | Citation: | Smithson. Misc. Coll., 68(9): 1. | Common Name: | Baiji | Type Locality: | "Tung Ting Lake, about 600 miles up the Yangtze River, [Hunan] China". | Distribution: | China: Chang Jiang (Yangtze) and Qiantang Jiang (mouth of Fuchun Jiang) river systems. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered. | Comments: | Reviewed by Chen (1989), Zhou et al. (1978, 1979). Reviewed by Brownell and Herald (1972, Mammalian Species, 10). |
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